t*^-^ Tea Table Gossip. waves as the fishes that swim beneath "It'll blow hard afore the morn, but "Then die, Elsie, for ye shall never THE SPINNING-WHEEL. to be sunny and full of hope and joy There is no more delightful reading or the aulls that float above. So it there's time enough to be out and in be his wife!" $ ~f? and love, and does bis best to make ~^'"f^ foel Bonton in Good Cheer.* was that when Willie grew discontented again for all that." than Ben:Perley Poore's reminicences I sank down? in the bottom of the it so now that I am his wife. with his earnings as a fisherman.he There was something in the tone *V -f boat and closed my eyes. I could not of life in Washington half a century Belgravia. 4B. country houses long years ago,"*" went to sea to make more money in which made me doubtful, but I did look at my death, though I knew it The spinning-wheel went round and ago. Here is an entertaining picture the hope of wedding me the sooner. not want to seem a coward so before must come. A dull stupor crept over A Review at Aldershot, Enff. round, of the hotel hospitality of that day: long we were upon the open sea, tacking "I was not strong enough for a fisherman's me, and the agony of fear which held Union.fy^ .And tho3e who heard it will always know From the Brooklyn and turning to catch the breeze. wife,'" he said, "and he hoped When congress first met at Washington Its solemnly quaint and droning sound. me before was gone. Was it my disordered A member of one of the Brooklyn There was more of that further out to be able to keep me like a lady." there was but one hotel there imagination which made me The soft, white wool from the spindle ran than on shore, but still not enough regiments sends the following from Just as if I cared! and one in Georgetown. Others were, Into a thread so fair and fine, think something had happened which to send us along merrily, although the 'That it always baffled the boy or man Though I was small I was not delicate, however, soon erected, and fitty-eight London, where he is spending a few sounds perfectly incredible? Who tried to watch its even line. new boat was as light and swift and and I could, and indeed did, carry years ago there were half a dozen. It was getting too dark to distinguish eas to manage as any boat could the creel as well as the best of The favorite establishment was the When I saw you at the armory just plainly, but, surely, that was For the wheel was given a curious twirl well be, and skimmed the waves like a them. For my mother married Indian Queen hotel, which occupied before leaving for this part of the Edam Carr's big form I saw at the Some magic prompted its hummingsnore, bird. again, and when she died there were the present site of the Metropolitan world, I told you I would endeavor Yet it did not trouble the country girl. other end of the boat stooping over a more little mouths to fill, and no one Who learned its art on the kitchen floor. hotel and was designated by a large to send something about the troops coil of lope? "She's a bonnie one to go, Edam," but me to do it for their father was swinging sign upon which figured regulars or volunteersI might see Then who was the man busied with I said after a little, but I got no reply. I see her still step to and fro, a lazy, drunken good-tor-nothing, who the sail in the centre of it here. I have not witnessed a drill of Edam sat with his eye fixed upon the ahontas, painted in glaring colors Pulling each roll in the deftest way, OC fell over the cliff one night when he distant sky, and I could see he was We were shut off from all human the volunteers, but saw the great review iandlord, And singing some air to make it go Jesse Brown, who used Tn was rolling home from the "Old Ship thinking something over very deeply. help there in the midst of a howling and sham battle of the regulars With strange delight through the toilsome to the curb-stone to -welcome Inn",and did no good after. Lucky com I followed the direction of hiseyes,and tempest, and yet some one had managed at Aldershot on July 2. Tne review day. tn guests," was a native of for them and for me, though it sounds comm did not like the prospect. A gleam of to come on board, and evidently took place before the queen and a dis- jj On the burdened spindle the white thread who had served hism avr queer to say it, he did not live long la severa' sickly yellow light lay down to the to give us his assistance. No other tinguished party, comprising apprenticeship to tavern keeping grew to be a burden but we had some hard water, but above that were piled Indian vessel could possibly have approached Hagerstown and in Alexandriai(ere Just as her cunning foresight planned, members of the royal lamily, gn times now and then, when the weather masses of heavy gray clouds, without us while my eyes were shut, certainly And It was wondrous to see how true princes, nobles, etc. There was a i gfance" at thwee travelers as they was rough and there was no fish to a break, save in one place, where it The swift yarn foliowed her guidinghand. not without my hearing it. Where large enclosure for the queen and at- a]}shted an sell. Only for the bairns I would was as though a mighty hand had tendents. Myself and two other Americans then, had this stranger come from' enable him Twas a charming picture in summer dajs, into the house would pushed them aside to make a space have been msemaid at the vicarage, and an Englishman occupied All these thoughts flashed through mentally to assign each one to But the wheel to rack and ruin has gone, for the tempest to break through. All for which -s Ashford had had me a carriage about 20 yards to the right my mind, but at the time I was too a room, the advantages of which And the pretty spinner's grandchild's face around this space was hurry and confusion, trained befoi mother died, but I of the enclosure, but quite close stupefied to wonder much. My faculties Is seen "croquet"-ing upon the lawn. he would describe ere sending its while the rest of the sky was could earn mote money doing as the seemed dulled, and I could neither enough to get a good view of the queen. des Hushed is that solemn, droning sound occupant there under the picolored sullen and quiet. Far out the sickly rest did, and look after the little ones ne suffer nor fear any more. I simply She came upon the ground accompanied a Its art is now forgotten lore, 0f otaa servant. When gleam on the horizon was repeated on at the same time. waited for the end. I could see dimly by the Prince of Wales, the Duke of a exfc, 43o the spinning wheel no more goes round th a gray green sea nearer, the dark rooWaabymeatdaytBrownnewly-orwear,eth.eMrrsswmita3 The men favored me in the matter the sharp ridge of rocks we were nearing, Cambridge and the Duke of Teck. The I me /3n summer days by the kitchen door. arrivei the doo waves were beginning to show tops of ue of fish, because they thought I had a Prince of Wales was in the uniform of and from which nothing short of the dining white. stiffish hill to climb, and I will say a miracle now could keep us. colonel of the 10th Hussars. He ing a white apron, who escorted him that nobody was kinder than Edam "THE BIBS OF DEATH/ But this miracle did take place. All looked splendidly and rode a magnificent to a seat and then went to the head I did not like the prospect, nor did I Carr. I believe he was really fond of at once our course changed and the horse. Over his saddle was like the notion of being out there on of the table, where he carved and helped me, and I often reproached myselt boat turned from its dangerous way. thrown a leopard's skin. I also saw that angry-looking waste of waters at the principal dish. The excellences Three months before I was born my that I could not help shrinking from Then, and not till then, did Edam the Duke of Connaught, Lord Napier the mercy oi Edam Carr and his caprices. of thisfish or flesh or fowlhe would him. But I was not alone that seem to awaken to the knowledge that father's boat went down in a sudden ot Magdala. Lord William Seymour, announce as he would invite those dread. They called him "Black he was no longer managing affairs. Lord Wolseley, Sir Archibald Alison, ^squall,within sight of home and of my seated at the table to send up their "Don't you think we should go back Edam" for a nickname, because he With a sudden oath he started up and Sir Drury-Lowe and other soldiers of plates for what he knew to be their -mother who, with the rest of the fish3rmen's now, Edam?" I asked timidly "it looked so grim and dour. None of the crept forward. distinction. When the queen appeared favorite portions and he would also doesn't look over well out yonder," wives, awaited the landing of men exchanged greetings with him When he got to the figure standing upon the field she was heartily invite attention to the dishes on other and I pointed to the far sea. when he stalked along past their with its back toward him 1 saw him the little fleet. cheered. As near as I could ascertain parts of the table, which were carved "Leave that to rae, Elsie, ma friendly groups nor did any of the raise his arm to thrust it aside. Then there were bout 14,500 officers Perhaps this was the reason I had and helped by the guests who sat darlin'!" girls laugh and. joke with him. With slowly, slowly, it turned and looked and men on parade, 2,400 horses,and nearest them. I have a delicious such an instinctive horror and dread He had no.right to call me his darling, one consent he was left alone. him straight in the face. 60 guns. quarter of mutton from the valley of of the sea, even while it fascinated but I was beginning to be very Well, you see, here was a bond of He cfied out wildly, "God help me, The queen received the royal salute Virginia," Mr. Brown would announce much afraid, and so I said nothing union between us in his eyes. They and drew me to it in its stormiest for I'm mad now, any way'" and, with a slight acknowledgment by inclining in a stentorian tone, -nhich could be about that. looked on me as on one doomed, and throwing up his arms, he leaped overboard her head forward. As the moods- I twas a queer feeling that heard above the clatter of crockery But all at once a rush, a whirl, and on him as one unlucky, or unhappy, into thn seething waves. troops presented arms the massed and the din of steel knives and forks. possessed me. When away from the a roar caused me to scream out as a which means the same to them. "It's I watched him strike out when he bands played "God Save the Queen." "Let me send you a rare slice, Mr A i sight and sound of the breakers I was squall struck our little craft and made no use fightin' fate, Elsie!" he would rose, but I was too paralyzed to scream People shouted, men threw their hats "Col. B., will you have a bone'" "Mrs. it heel over, wetting me to the skin at say, looking down at me with his trestless and unquiet, near them I was even. He had not a chance in that into the air, and ladies clapped their C, send up your plate for a piece of the same time. As a matter of tact, great gloomy eyes "we were made for terrible sea, but was thrown like a bit hands and waved their handkerchiefs. awed and melancholy, but some cravin the kidney." "Mrs. D., there is a fat we fisher lassies are not at all brave one another, we two." of floating weed upon the very rocks The salute over, the queen went to and tender mongrel goose at the other of my nature was satisfied, and I upon the sea, though it may be almost But I used to shake my head and he had been steering for, clung there the right of the line and thfn passed end of the table." "Joe, pass around was comparatively calm. I believe our native element. There are run away, though I dared not offend for a moment, only to be swept back along the front. She was seated in a the sweet potatoes." "Col. E., will very few Grace Darlings among us. him by contradicting him otherwise. many of our peopie, who are intensely by the return of the waves. I saw carriage driwn by four cream colored you help to that chicken pie before Indeed, we hardly ever venture into a He got grimmer and blacker as time this in the last lurid streak of light horses, and there were three other superstitious, looked upon me as you?" boat at all. So it is not to be wondered went on, and I did not forget my which flashed across the water before carriages, each drawn by four horses, doomed in consequence of this. "The at that my courage should fail Willie, as perhaps Edam hoped I the night came, and in it were shown and finally a magnificently mounted *sea always swallows what it gets a utterly when we began to ship heavy should. Foolish Displays. at last the features of my strange companion. staff. The band of each brigade played seas. 'bold of," they said among themselves The weather was uncertain that Was it all a dream? I did as the queen went past. The party Boston Hotel Clerk in 0lobe-Democrat. Autumn, and there was little dependence "Oh, take me home, Edam, or I not know even then, nor did I feel having returned to the saluting point "with sorrowful fatalism. We can Two or three years ago I was night on the fish. Some days the boats know we'll never win back at all!" afraid, but as those eyes met mine a a flagstaff with the royal standard -bardly help being superstitious and clerk at the Hotel Nantasket, were not off at all, some days they But he took no notice more than to thrill ran through me, and I sank into floating from itthe march past commenced. at Nantasket Beach, one night ^gloomywe who are born and reared had no fish when they landed. I got put things right and tight in a skillful unconsciousness. Late that night, I never before saw anything John L. Sullivan, with Pete *In Caitermouth. Nature is so stern in work where I could, but those three way 1 could not but admire however when some of the man went down to so imposing. The batteries went past McCoy and a few of his other sporting mouths at home took a lot of satisfying, angry I began to feel toward him. see that their boats were secure, they like a wall. The cavalry looked superb. *ber moods and so cruel in her way of friends, came in and wanted something and I often went to bed hungry "Are you never going to turn, Edam found Edam Carr's new ooat safely I was more pleased with the ^expressing them. to drink. It was after 12 o'clock and cold along with them. Carr?" I broke out at last. drawn up on the beach and me lying light brigade than with the heavy brigade, and the bar was closed, but the head Miss Ashford, our Vicar's daughter, One afternoon I was wandering rather A suspicion which I had often heard in it in a dead faint. although the first Life Guards barkeeper happened to be near the ti very cross with me for saying things disconsolately on the beach, feeling breathed in the village came back to were in the latter. The leading regiment After that came a time of dull, stupid desk, and, knowing Sullivan, he opened i like this, but I cannot help thinking low and hopeless, wishing for Willie me then, and I trembled for our lives. of the light brigade was the 5th misery to me. I could never answer the door and tne party went in. that even she feels them to be true and better days, when Edam, who was They said "Edam Carr wasgettin' the Lancersa splendid body of men and questions, nor give any account .sometimes during the Ion: and stormy They sat at a table for ome time and busy in his boat, called me as I passed same queer look his father had afore horses. As the 10th hussars, headed of that dreadful evening, save that \Winters on this northeast coast of drank a couple of bottles of wine. by. "Elsie, come here and tell me he went out of his heid and drowned by the Prince of Wales, came up, the Edam Carr had gone mad and jumped 'Ours She is very kind and good, and They had evidently had some before what you think o* my boat?" he cried hisself!" and remembering this and cheering was tremendous. In this superb overboard, and had been dashed coming to the hotel, and they felt the as she is ahw.t VMIM working among in a more cheery voice than usual, the few words his mother had whispered, regiment the eldest son of the against the "Ribs of Death," and that affects of it pretty strongly. As they ms perhaps U.M. through. and, glad to be good-natured when I I inclined to think he was mad at Prince of Wales is an officer. The I fainted when this happened, and 3at there a dispute arose about some iStwasshe who t. ...o how to could, 1 stopped and admired the fine times. When I spoke he laughed out prince saluted his mother in good style knew no more. But then, how had point or other which I did not understand, write and put senICM together so new boat he had just bought with the loud. It was the first time that Inad and then turned out and took post by I the boat been brought into port? they E and Sullivan finally wanted to as to make this story intelligible, and money an unlce had left him. ever heard him laugh, and it gave me the queen's side and she frequently asked. My story was proved true by bet $100 that he was right. "Oh, it was she who wished me to write it. an odd feeling. "But you've got no name for her," spoke to him, apparently asking questions poor Edam's body being washed 1 come off," said McCov, "you haven't Why, I do not know. When I told it I said at last "what are you going to "So you're afraid, ma bonnie Elsie? about the different regiments. ashore two days after. For long the lot $100." "H'aint I?" retorted Sullivan tm her first I hardly expected her to call her?" It's a long time since you and I were people looked at me strangely. Their in a loud voice, as he rose from, b^laeve it, but sh did and helped me as much alone together as we are now, "That depends on you," he replied, superstition made them regard me now Mentioned Base Ball. the table. "I'll show you I've got through the bad time which I had afterbut nothing but the boat that holds us looking up quickly "It ye don't object as "uncanny" and shun me as something that must bide until I come money. See here!" and quick as a two on all that world o' water' Eh, I would name her 'The Bonnie they could not account for. Besides, It is not only the young man, says to it. v\ink he drew a magnificent gold watch but its fine to have you all to mysel' Elsie?' instead ot the sea claiming its the Pittsburg Cronicle. who is deeply from his vest pocket, released it from Callermouth is only a cluster of cottages like this!" That would never do I thought in a victim, as they expected it to do, I had interested in babe ball. The schoolboy, the guard and threw it with his w^ole around a little harbor, with a "Are you mad?" I excaimed, my minute, it would be all over the place been miraculously saved from it' as the following letter, written strength against the partition which /pier and lifeboat house below. About thought taking words all unconsciously- at once that Edam Carr had called I often wonder I did not go mad myself by a boy of 14 to his fatherspendin in this cit3r, will show. Th boy is a mile to the north is the ugly sharp separated the wine-room from the his boat after Elsie Wilson, and that during that dreary time. ridge of rocks which bears the significant hotel lobby. It sounded like a bullet Edam laughed again, that horrible, she was "off with the old love and on For I settled in my own mind clearly his vacation in Columbus, 0., and had name of "Ribs o' Death.'" Many cruel laugh which had no mirth in \t'. from a gun as it struck the woodwork. with the new." enough how it was. I should never promised to write to his father faithful a'fioe vessel has struck and ground "Maybe. Sometimes I think I am Of course the watch was ruined. That "You musn't do that" I demurred bee my bonnie sweetheart more. I had accounts of what he saw on the her timbers to matchwood, many a myself, but if I am, it's for love o' as gently as I could "there's prettier was a sample of the reckless and foolish not a doubt that he was dead and road, and what was of interest to vpoor clinging life has been washed off you." names and lasses, too, for that matter, displays which he frequently made that my cry for help had brought him him in Columbus. He did so, and it 4hose fatal rbs They do say that in His eyes were so bright and so wild in the place!" in those days. But it is not only the in the spirit to my assistance. For a is easily seen by his letter where his 'the old tfmes many a ship was lured I could not bear to look at them, and His face changed for the worse in a while I nur&ed my sullen grief in "plug-uglies'" and "thugs" who do mind is. at present. The letter is well there to its destruction too but I can his hand, as heA%. took hold of mine, moment, and an angry light blazed in silence but at last Miss Ashford's such things. I have seen exhibitions written and ib well worth reading. It fr scarce believe the grandfathers of our burned with his eyes. kindness bioke down the barrier and is as foliows- squally nonsensical on the part of brave fellows, who lived by and on "For men-) & sake, Edam, take "I'm not to heve yer name, then, I told her e\ erything. Only tor that pome of the high-toned bloods" of the COIXMBLS, 0., July 16, 18S6. the waters just as now, could be inhuman care! If ye don't mind we'll be both forbye yerself?" and because she did not laugh at me, hub. I happened in a rich hotel bar Dear Pana I got here safe and sound enough to trade upon the danger in the water." "It wouldn't do, Edam folks would but believed that I spoke the truth, I in Boston onenight whenayouth who last evening about dark. It was a splendid and deaths of fellow-mariners. Only talk, andand Willie might be vexed," "An' what o' that? At any rate should have lost my senses or my life, occupies a place in the "best society" trip, and, accoidin? to promise, I ill 1 must say that even yet, while any of I went on hesitatingly. What a coward we'll drown together, and ye'll never for the secret was killing me. write you all about it. The only tiling I :ame in and ordered wine for himself our men would risk his life without I wa3 to be sure! It was with the belong to another man." regretted in lea\mg was that I missed seeing "Truly there are strange mysteries and friends. They sat at a table in the last t,ame of the series between theAlleghanjs thinking twice about it to save another, greatest difficulty in the world I managed I clasped my hands in an agony of we cannot hope to be revealed" in this ironfrof the bar, and, after the bottle and the Mets, but we got a he woulden't have- any very definite to bring out my real objection. terror. Oh, what a fool I had been not life," she said solemnly. "Hast thou, nad been emptied, the young man de- telegram List niht that the game went all ideas on the laws^of salvage. Ar.d yet I was so proud of being Willie's to have guessed what might happen' I which art but air, a touch, a feeling of ught I was not a comely lass in the estimation sweetheart. thought of the poor bairns at home their affections? I would try not to is Pa he drew his check-book of the village critics. In fact "He's not yer man yet that he waiting for me now to* give them their think too much about it, Elsie and games, ine when I saw my little white face, with should mind," Edam replied sulkily, suppers and hear their prayers don't give way to despair, above all. bai You nu,jht take ma, too, on Thursday, no its big dark eyes, in the dim old lookiingatess and then under his breath. "Maybe and tuck them up in their beds, and Think how the litt'e ones need you." .tD charge for ladie* that day. I generally sit which hung over the manteltpiece he never will be either." the tears rolled down my cheeks at ontheiuht where I can see the fellows from his pocket, signed a blank and It was all ery well to talk, and I in our front room, and comparit the thought of how long they might put out at i rst. If you had been there the oefore the proprietor had time to show- I heard the end of the sentence, low did try honestly but I couldn't help with that of BellCarr, our biggest other day and hid seen Shomberg's three- I anger, asked him how much he should have to wait. as it was muttered. thinking of my boy during the long baser you'd have gone home wild. Shomberg and best looking girl, I used to feel fill it out for. That break cost him "An' what's to hinder, if we're both "Oh, Edam, I didn't think ye could dreary Winter nights, after the children is the new mannew first base ior the $1,500. yery small and insignificant. She was of one mind about it?" I said sharply, be so cruel'" I said between my sobs. had gone to bed, and I was left Alleghanys. But I foiget that you don't a, true fisher lass, tall and strongly know anything about base-ball. losing my temper a bit at his obstinacy. But even the tears failed to move him. alone by the glimmering firelight. 'made, with a swinging walk and saucy The first place we stopped was at Rochester, "You have been cruel enough to me Then the tears would come, and, oh' Chewing: Gum by The Ton. about 2S miles out. I don't think smile, and a ready word for every one it's my turn now!" he answered sullenly, it felt so lonely, and lite so sad wanting "Who knows? He might get a wife they have a club therethough a boy gentle or simple. The artists who From the Cleveland Plaindealer. as he altered the sail. him. where he's gone, and he might never on the platform told me there wasone came here sometimes to pain us in our come back at all" By this time the lurid gleam had I was sitting thus one night, leaning A few days ago my wayward feet at Bearer, and another at New i .-characteristic blue flannels always "D've want to quarrel wi' me, almost died out from the sky and all Brighton, towns nearby. I am sorry my cheek upon my hand, and the carried my body into the suburbs and .selectedt her, and passed me over. I I could not find just how they stood, Edam?" was dark around us. The wind was stocking I was knitting for one of the vwas no a "type" and she was, they to a chewing-gnm factory. There I got they are not in the association, anyhow. blowing strongly and hurrying the "No, no, Elsie, we winna quarrel," bairns had fallen upon the floor,while industrremorseles4enescfsplacithriveaetsththanIy.ethjaws After awhile we got out .said! of the ome idea of an masses of clouds across the heavens he said at once. I'm a bit queer in the I gazed into the dying embers. How penny sales and hills, and when we got past Dennison, Well, I was glad of it, for Willie at headlong speed, and tearing at the 5 temper, but I wouldn't like to vex long I sat I know not, but suddenly American and from that all the way to Columbus. ivo7.of wouldn't have liked me to act as a water until the air and the waves you." the coals fell together and flared up I never saw such a base ball a block^ model! mingled in one wild fray. How our "I'm goin' to try th' new boat, will into a blaze, and there on the other country. You may not believe me, but I saw half a dozen aRd of marble Spite of my want of beauty, I had little boat lived at all in such a storm ye venture out wi' me. lassie?" he went side of the hearth, stood Willie, my petroleums und there is ]ust one field after Lanotheronly or wax Each weiuh- E\S?:Le^X 7ea,allThr8d two lads came courting me, and Willie is more than I can understand. In on quietly after a moment. Willie, laughing down at me. ?ht tS the Lisie was the on a I favored. Edam the hand of a less experienced boat I did not know what to say. I I screamed and covered my eyes. I dea SCttlptor heart and hand. And *(Adam Carr was too much of my man we should have been lost in stom would not be wise to offend him more where the Sunday school excursions should ?f? F^ 1^ dared not look at what seemed confirmation a time. i own temper for me, too gloomy I was run toplenty of room for all the boys to than I had been unlucky enough to do of my worst fears but in a play, and no such thing as allowing only was absolutely clean and odorless, -afraid of him, had the same sort of already. There was no harm in sailing "Do have pity on me and the poor moment warm, living arms were two bags for a three-baser when the balls few weeks ago the Stuff laid in oned mistrust of him that I had of the sea, out a mile or so, providing he little ones that have only me to look round my neck, and I was clasped to hit the rocks, as they are at Rock Point, )f the huge tanks near the oilwells of ba .and perhaps a little of the same idea would promise to bring me back then. to, Edamdear Edam!" a strongly beating heart. greenish-brown"iwijfureuyC",e Alliquippa and those other places. I Pennsylvania, a dirty, of his possible power over me." But, could I trust him? His mother, "Ay, it's dear Edam now you're in "Why, what ails thee, sweetheart?" I suppose before the Columbus club was ?\U\A ^k ?ue+L0 smells But Willie, with his bonnie yellow old Nannie Carr, had come up while my power, but how long would it last One would say you'd seen a ghost!" 081 J th bad of a glue fac- sold to Pittsburg all these corn fields were So. i ^V ai curls and his blue eyes, and his sunny we were speaking, and she took part if I let you win safe to land? Elsie, if w^***. diamonds. It certainly looks desolate I did not tell him then that I had -^hen it was crude oil, but since P1 mtle, what girl could have resisted with him. now, with cattle roaming and nothing but you'll be ma wife I'll make for shore taken* him for one. The tears were harvest hands trudging around. hen it has been in a turmoil, and Slim? He brought his brightness into this minuteif not" "It's not much to ask ye, Elsie, and changed into tears of joy at once, and chemicalhCm?-extract I like Columbus, but don't want to stay through "stirring times" and any life, and it seemed to go out like it'll please him ever so! He's gey queer "What then?" I faltered. the world seemed bright and gay, now a here long. Next vacation please send me rocesses From it has been *he sun beneath a cloud on the day to do we' just now, lassie," she said "I'll run us straight on to the 'Ribs Willie was safe at heme! a ttle benzine, plenty of to Cleveland or some other place whew lftrftnffl.z,,. lie sailed in the Rowena, bound for il a aside to me "if yo can humor him a o' Death,' and there'll beanendon't!" IP When I did tell him at last extractU they have alive club. Columbus is the I *t ~te i a* xs a lo of valuable but techn China and the East Indies, horn the an bit, ye might for ma sake." What was I to do? I tried to be ia what had caused me so much capital of Ohiothe proprietor ofthe hotel Tyne. a false to Willie for the sake of dear life, told me that the place was called after She was a kind neighbor, and often misery, he laughed, and said Christopher Columbus, who discovers*} -aly named affairs that are out of All our most energetic and enterpris'"ingyoung but it was no use. I couldn't get out the bairns got a dinner from her when I must have let my imagination America in 1492. You seel have done as ,'each. Anyway, the gum-wax waa men become sailors,if they do the words which would make me so! I was away, so I did not care to refuse run away with me. But he acknowledged you said-got the history of the place th* feft and farmer'csiv-servicsaw,r it was in that I reformer'saanclea nof feel, satisfied to become fisnermen If I must die I must, and there was no her. It she saw no harm in it who to having had a troubled droam fint thing. The Columbus people are al, a ideal bedchambe and at .as their fathers before them. It never help for it, but, oh! I was hard, U1 else would dare to talk? in which I called on him for help, ij,s most as proud of the Allies as we are: -^nt-Wcs v-uamoer, ana as. oc seems to enter into any of their heads while the young blood flowed quick sowr friends it had to be melted^ Still I hesitated. though he always declares he cannot guess they must be sorry they sold out. I "j -Be-lore it became the chewing,05 that there are other means of livelihoo and warm in my veins, to be plunged ecora "D'ye think it's safe? The sea has remember anything more about it. am going to Newark on an excursion tosea .n, than these two callings. They theNewarks vs. the Zaneavilles this after- headlong into eternity. abou been callin' off and on all day. Lis- I never look at the "Ribs of Death" 4 noon, and will write you a description and lavored, sweetenedd anadf "put up" iu catinot tear themselves away from th ten'" i I gave one loud despairing cry. without a shudder and a sigh forpoor history of that place also, as soon as I get anciful array. Then the 100-pound^nie the sea altogether, however they may Is? And in the hush which so often precedes "Oh, Willie, Willie! can you not hear W Edam's terrible death, and nothing POUn0 ?block. ar used 5 IT Love to ma, Willie, Sadie and Johnnv- I Tnd"^?* ,0 abuse it. They inhale its salt breeze a gale we could distinctly hear me, my sweetheart, my darling? If will persuade me that I was not saved a nes an vith their earliest breaths, its foam Your aff. Son. $\** that strange moaning, about which we you were only by I know you could from sharing his fate by supernatural of the history of Columbia, gi wee P. 8.-Don't let Johnny have my pro-, and spray beat on them, until it becomes always say "The sea is calling." save me. It's for your sake I die, assistance. But I do not insist upon ac IS* Willie but I love you so, I love you fessional dead leauge to play with. The part of them, as it were, and the1 Edam threw a quick glance along it with Willie, for he does not like me water in the gutter is terrible on horse. 'the gem of the ocoan etc. I ia ithey are as much creatures of the horizon. _, so!"